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Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

ashiqueelahi The movie was extremely good. The performance of John Cusack is absolutely outstanding. The storyline is pretty engaging. All in all this is a great psychological horror flick in truest sense.

adonis98-743-186503 A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. 1408 is a film that play's with viewers minds and believe me it's gonna drive you freaking insane and i mean that as a compliment trust me on that, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson are amazing in their specific roles and Cusack does sell the craziness pretty good. The movie has alot of great twists as a whole and it's very disappointing that their next film together was meant to be 'Cell' another Stephen King book turned movie and unfortunately not a good one.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I'll never understand why so many people think that for a horror film to be "scary" or "good", it needs to have lots of blood, sex, gore and swearing. 1408, much like 2012's "Sinister" and 2001's "Session 9", relies less on cheap thrills and gimmicks and instead uses atmosphere to tell a story that's more sad than frightening, a perfect portrayal of a man going through the stages of deep grief in a hotel room feeding off his own bad memories and sadistically waving them in front of him. Set in beautiful New York City, it follows the obnoxiously cynical yet strangely likable Mike Enslin, a writer of cheap supernatural fodder who doesn't actually believe a single thing he publishes. He takes great pride in mocking and debunking the beliefs of his readers, even advising a young man to visit Disney World's Haunted Mansion in Orlando if he's looking for "real ghosts". Worse than that he mocks those who rely on ghost stories to keep their businesses open, including Mr. Olin, the manager of the Dolphin Hotel who actually wishes the owners of the building would simply shut the room down. He's a decent guy and he feels responsible in a way for the room's many atrocities, but he's simply unable to sway Mike from worming his way in and getting 1408 all to himself for the night.This is a truly remarkable, criminally underrated film. It's not as massive and epic as "The Shining", yet it manages to convey something really unsettling throughout, whether it's a deceased corpse of a sewing machine salesman in an air duct, two parents losing their young daughter to cancer or the notion that not believing in something will only make it stronger. It's not showy or pretentious or cheesy, it's just a good, clean ghost story reminiscent of old classics in every respect. You never know what will happen next but Mike is so flawed that it makes him all the more human and honest as a protagonist in a story that seems to be eating him alive.

tangojay I saw this movie and 1408 minutes later I was STILL trying to figure out why anybody would give this pile of garbage more than a 1!!!!!! Serious, some of the scenes reminded me of the hunted house at Disneyland and about as scary and about as funny. John Cusak hits a painting of a ship and the room is flooded with water? serious!? One reviewer said this was "The Shinning of 2007", please , what were YOU drinking when you saw this heaping pile of cow dung!!! If you want to see the competition for worse movie of the 21st Century along with Artificial Intelligence and want to waste over an hour, watch this crap.